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History, archaeology, and de-anthropocentrism in sound artIn Marcel Cobussen, Vincent Meelberg & Barry Truax (eds.), The Routledge companion to sounding art, Routledge. 2017.
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71Evental Aesthetics: Retropective 1Evental Aesthetics 4 (1): 1-116. 2015.EVENTAL AESTHETICS RETROSPECTIVE 1. LOOKING BACK AT 10 ISSUES OF EVENTAL AESTHETICS.
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224Evolution and AestheticsEvental Aesthetics 4 (2): 1-170. 2015.Is aesthetics a product of evolution? Are human aesthetic behaviors in fact evolutionary adaptations? The creation of artistic objects and experiences is an important aesthetic behavior. But so is the perception of aesthetic phenomena qua aesthetic. The question of evolutionary aesthetics is whether humans have evolved the capacity not only to make beautiful things but also to appreciate the aesthetic qualities in things. Are our near-universal love of music and cute baby animals essential to ou…Read more
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39Vital MaterialismEvental Aesthetics 3 (3): 1-110. 2015.In her book, Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett thinks through what ontological, political, and ecological questions would look like if humans could admit that matter and nonhuman things are living, creative agents; the contributors to this issue of Evental Aesthetics begin to think through what aesthetic questions would look like
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29HijackingEvental Aesthetics 3 (2): 1-61. 2014.A hijacking is a violent takeover, a misappropriation of something for a purpose other than its intended one, by parties other than those for whom the thing was meant. This issue explores the aesthetic practices and consequences of unauthorized repurposing
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37Evental Aesthetics (Vol. 3 No. 1,2014)Evental Aesthetics 3 (1): 1-64. 2014.Our contributors explore a rich variety of aesthetic problems that bring about the self-reflexive re-evaluation of ideas
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37Reading: Aesthetics, Ownership, and Form of Life in Agamben's The Highest PovertyEvental Aesthetics 2 (4): 99-107. 2014.Reading is an affective and reflective relationship with a text, whether it is a new, groundbreaking monograph or one of those books that keeps getting pulled off the shelf year after year. Unlike traditional reviews, the pieces in this section may veer off in new directions as critical reading becomes an extended occurrence of thinking, being, and creation. The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life, by Giorgio Agamben.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013
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55Animals and Aesthetics (Volume 2, Number 2, 2013)Evental Aesthetics 2 (2): 1-123. 2013.In this special issue on animals and aesthetics, contributors explore encounters with animals in art and thought
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14Introductory Editorial: Snail, Shark, SpiritEvental Aesthetics 2 (2): 4-17. 2013.In this special issue on animals and aesthetics, contributors explore encounters with animals in art and thought
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37Aesthetic HistoriesEvental Aesthetics 2 (3): 1-86. 2013.In "Aesthetic Histories" our contributors’ shared concern is the inspiring and confounding, healthy and uncomfortable and above all inevitable relationship between history and aesthetic praxis
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50Poverty and Asceticism (Vol. 2 No. 4,2014)Evental Aesthetics 2 (4): 1-107. 2014.This issue profiles various attempts, both successful and fraught, to engage the divide between asceticism and opulence, between materialism and poverty
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17Aesthetics After Hegel: Editors IntroductionEvental Aesthetics 1 (1): 4-10. 2012.Our contributors invite new ways of thinking Hegels ideas through contemporary art and theories that arise from current perspectives; and of thinking through such art and perspectives via Hegelianism
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10The Missed: IntroductionEvental Aesthetics 1 (1): 4-8. 2012.This introduction highlights the themes that arise from The Missed: the productivity and negativity of unrealized potential and missed opportunity
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9Art and the City: IntroductionEvental Aesthetics 1 (3): 4-9. 2012.In this issue, our contributors demonstrate how art in the city, art “about” the city, art compared to the city, can bring to attention the insidious forces underlying every city’s gleaming, wide-awake veneer
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23Art and the City (Volume 1, Number 3, 2012)Evental Aesthetics 1 (3): 1-112. 2012.In this issue, our contributors demonstrate how art in the city, art “about” the city, art compared to the city, can bring to attention the insidious forces underlying every city’s gleaming, wide-awake veneer
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68Aesthetics After Hegel (Volume 1, Number 1, 2012)Evental Aesthetics 1 (1): 1-138. 2012.This issue is dedicated to thinking about art and current aesthetic perspectives through Hegelianism
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35Hegels Being-Fluid in Corregidora, Blues, and (Post-)Black AestheticsEvental Aesthetics 1 (1): 85-120. 2012.This article offers Hegelian readings, based on his theory of fluid identity, of the blues and African-American identity. All identities, even Hegels, should be denied fixed definitions, in favor of fluid ones that allow for change and the sublation of otherness
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14Aesthetic Histories: IntroductionEvental Aesthetics 2 (3): 4-6. 2013.In "Aesthetic Histories" our contributors’ shared concern is the inspiring and confounding, healthy and uncomfortable and above all inevitable relationship between history and aesthetic praxis
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22Introductory Editorial: Towards a Vital Materialist AestheticsEvental Aesthetics 3 (3): 4-16. 2015.In her book, Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett thinks through what ontological, political, and ecological questions would look like if humans could admit that matter and nonhuman things are living, creative agents; the contributors to this issue of Evental Aesthetics begin to think through what aesthetic questions would look like
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21Evental Aesthetics (Vol. 3 No. 1, 2014) IntroductionEvental Aesthetics 3 (1): 4-7. 2014.Our contributors explore a rich variety of aesthetic problems that bring about the self-reflexive re-evaluation of ideas
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35Retropective 1: IntroductionEvental Aesthetics 4 (1): 4-7. 2015.EVENTAL AESTHETICS RETROSPECTIVE 1. LOOKING BACK AT 10 ISSUES OF EVENTAL AESTHETICS.
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53Editorial. Evolution and AestheticsEvental Aesthetics 4 (2): 4-21. 2015.Is aesthetics a product of evolution? Are human aesthetic behaviors in fact evolutionary adaptations? The creation of artistic objects and experiences is an important aesthetic behavior. But so is the perception of aesthetic phenomena qua aesthetic. The question of evolutionary aesthetics is whether humans have evolved the capacity not only to make beautiful things but also to appreciate the aesthetic qualities in things. Are our near-universal love of music and cute baby animals essential to ou…Read more
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1602Human relationships with cars are multifaceted and morally fraught. Cars serve multiple functions, and generate experiences characteristic of both fine art and everyday aesthetic experience – but they’re also the roots of dire eco-social ills. Recent theories tend to undermine the aesthetic aspects of human-automobile relationships in order to emphasize cars’ ethically problematic effects. But cars’ shameful consequences need not cancel out their beauty or their relevance to aesthetic theories. …Read more
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18Hijacking: IntroductionEvental Aesthetics 3 (2): 4-10. 2014.A hijacking is a violent takeover, a misappropriation of something for a purpose other than its intended one, by parties other than those for whom the thing was meant. This issue explores the aesthetic practices and consequences of unauthorized repurposing